will = Developer.new(:parent => true, :photographer => true)

Social Eats

Never miss out on a great lunch again!

SocialEats is a Ruby on Rails 5 application designed to solve the problem of feeling you missed out on a great lunch outing. Our goal was to build a social networking tool that would let a user set up a lunch event and invite their friends, coworkers or classmates. We did this by using Rails 5’s ActionCable to facilitate real-time communication over websockets between users, and ActionMailer to give users the ability to send email invitations to their friends.

Users can use their Facebook account to log in and retrieve their user image.

Heroku

Deployed application to Heroku using Heroku CLI toolbelt.

Bootstrap

Signet

Quickly send files as far as you can shout!

Signet is a Ruby on Rails application, designed to be a great way to quickly share a handful of files with family, colleagues or friends as far as your voice will reach. With an account, a sender can upload files, which are saved to a temporary record with a single-word url. Senders can share that word to make navigating to the files easy. Hitting the page where the files are shown, a recipient can download individual files, or download a zip archive of all the files at once.

We utilized Rails ActionMailer to confirm the email accounts users register with, as well as scheduling Chron Jobs with the Whenever Gem to perform scheduled rake tasks to clean up the database as envelopes (collections of files to be shared) will be cleaned up after the expiration time a user selected.

For this project we followed the Services design pattern to remove lots of code from our Controllers to keep them clean, DRY and readable, as well as writing tests in order to facilitate future enhancements of the project without unknowingly damaging functionality.

Technologies used:

Zipped files returned from AWS S3 into a single archive for easy multiple-file downloading.

Heroku

Deployed application to Heroku using Heroku CLI toolbelt.

Bootstrap

RSpec, FactoryGirl and Faker to facilitate testing.

Picset

Learn mastery of your digital SLR through a series of image recognition exercises.

Picset is an Ember.js application that behaves as a set of flashcards to train users to recognize what effect camera settings like aperture and shutter speed have on photographs. Images are presented with a pair of slider form elements that let users input their perceived settings for that photograph, and upon form submission they are show the true values of the settings pulled from the photos metadata. Picset utilizes a Ruby on Rails API for its persistence layer, connected to the Ember.js application by ActiveRecord Serializers transmitting to Ember’s adapter in JSON API format. User authentication is handled by a custom implementation of Ember Simple Auth on the Ember application, which requests a JSON Web Token (JWT) from the Rails API for additional request authentications.